Airship.



P. L. EDDY.

AIRYSHIP.

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UNITED STATES PaTENTonFICE;

rmt Lonnnzo EDDY, or carena cana: x, coI.c1 r,ADo m N Beit 'known t iat tL'Pnninr L. EDDY; a

,citizen of theUnited States, residing at -Cripple Creel@ in the county ofTellerand State'of Colorado, have invented anew and useful Airship,'of which the following is .a y specification.

This invention -relates to air shi sv` of heavier than airwtype, one of the o jects being to provide a novel arrangement of helicopters for displacingair downwardly, means Vbeing provided whereby the air supplied tothe helicopters flows upwardly in.

albody of vnovel construction and thus' exerts asupplemental upward pressure whichl supplements the lifting action produced by the downward displacement thereof.

With-the foregoing and other Obiecsni'n.

view which` will.. appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and-arrangement of-parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changesY in the precise embodiment of the invention'lherein disclosed can be made with- ,In the accompanyingdrawings the prei ferred form of the invention has been shown.

In said drawings Figure 1` is a vertical through anair ship embodying the present im rovements.

vig. 2 is an enlarged section on line A-B Fig. 1., Fig. 3 is asection on line C-D of Fig. 1. Fig, 4 is a view partly in plan and partly in horizontal section of the upper portion of the airship.

Fig. 5 is a section4 on line E Fof Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is an enlarged' section through a portion of the cellular body or screen.

Fig'. 7 is a perspective view of a portion Fig. 8 is a view similar to Fig" 4 showing i a modified structure.

`illustrated particularly in Fig. 2 while the ends of the body areconical as shown at 2. The bottom `of this body l1 is open and suspended from the body so as to be under the central portion .,thereof, is a car 3 carryirx'g'I i motors-4 :tot4 actuating propellers .5. j The futfd'er the fines: 13 Vto retard the downwa Specification of .Letters Patent.

Application and apra ai, 191e. semi no. cams.

i To l I ,I i' I 2211' may be provided with braces 6 erinV d-v-' longitudinal section 4How readily tirough the ce1' Patented Apk-11i',

arranged at tl le center thereof and extending from the tap to the bottom of tli'ebody. It is also preierred to .provide apartition" 12 within the body at the-dinner end of-tbqew tapered porticn 2. Arriged within each l. of the compartments 9 and 10 andclose t0 75 the partition l2 is a cylindrical iue 13, the bottom of whchis open' and dispoedbf yond the adjacent end of the car-3. The flue terminate.| at .a point below the top :of the body 1 and .journaled within then perl 480 portlon ofthe flue is a vertical sha t' 14- to which is secured a helicopter 15 'Which.. may be drivel. in' any suitable mann'e'rya's by means of a motor 16. These helicopters-fj.; are adapted tc forceair downwardly with- 5b" i1i`the flues 13 so that an upward. ressureg will thus be exerted upon.= the .air slip and'- the same will be causedz to rise from the* ground.

The space between partition 1` andech 90 of the` fines` 13 is -occupied` by a cellularl bodyfl? made up of superposed layers of slats 18 arranged in pairs. I'The slatsv of each pair come together at their lower .edges to rform a V-s iaped structure as shown 'at 95 '19, and the pairs of slats constituting eachlayer are spaed apartnto formA a. S1013 20 thronghwhicl. air may pass -free1y. The slats of adjoiiilng series are disposed at right angles to each other. Fresh airrising. 4101.0 through. the sl( ts 20 between the slats of one series'will be deflected by thernext adjoinf ing slats theres bove and then flow' lupwardly through the slots between said upper slats. Obviously, the refore, While airlisfree to 105 l'liir body it will be carrier'. along circuitous paths. and' will enter`-`the spaces formed'between the cellularbodys ndlthe top of the bod 1. In operation, thehelicopter will 1s lace air downward lyimand as there 4is not in' am baaiean oin the 11st, 'there' being an l y nena-,pues

thee'of,-` it will be apparent that this downward .(lllsglacement of air will result in the air shipfe ng" elevated ofi of the ground.

Furtlierloregrth'e air displaced'downwardly 6 from the compartments 9 and 10 will be reg'aced yby 'air asc'zend-ir'lg through the cellular dy 17 tlegressure of these rising bodies Y of" air upon t e slats 18 ser'ving as a supplemental means for elevating the air ship.

It is to be understood that instead of havingy this particular' arrangement voi. helicopvtersA and slats illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, 4the' slats canbe arranged along the sides of the body, as indicated at 21 and the helicopcan be arranged in a In this connection isf claimed is:

Y 1;' Iii-an air ship,a body having an open bottom, vertical flues within the body, helicopters" d' 'E1-adrigair downwardly within the ilues, t ere being compartments above the' helicopters, each compartment having an airinlet ace extending thereinto from the betten' owne body',

Within each of said inlets.

- .2. `n air ship includin a body open at g d aving a ue therein, a helicopter Nr-dis'placing air downwardlyvwithair chamber above said air chamber having an ,I air extending from the bottom of the -bod and a cellular vthe bottom a .the bottom and longitudinal Secopterfor displacing air downwardly within and a cellular air re-' air resisting body Within t e inlet.

3. An air shi including a body lopen at nd liaving a flue therein, a helicopter for displacing air downwardly within the flue, there being an air chamber above the helicopter, said air chamber havingan air inlet extending from the bottom of the body, and a cellular air resisting body within the inlet, said body including superposed series of inclined sluts arranged in pairs, the pairs of'slats being spaced apart.

4. yAn air shi including a body openat iiaving a flue therein, a helithe flue, there being an air chamber above the helicopter, said air chamber having an air inlet extending from the'bottom of the body, and a cellular air resistingbody within the inlet, said body includin-g superposed Series of inclined slats arranged in pairs, the pairs of slats being spaced apart, the slats of each series being disposed at right angles to the slats of the adjoining series.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my in the presence of two witnesses.

" PERRY LORENZO EDDY.

Witnesses: i

H. E. MARTIN, HUNT WINN.

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